Do the Called of God hear any Voice from Heaven? A. Ordinarily it is a Call without Sound, yet as efficacious as an audible Voice from Heaven.

That all Believer's Privileges are not in Hope, but some in Hand, 1 John 3:1 Behold what Manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God.

But doth not James say otherwise, James 2:14 What doth it profit, my Brethren, though a Man, says he, hath Faith, and have not Works, Can Faith save him? A. The two Apostles contradict not one another. Paul speaks of Justification before God; and James of justifying our Faith before Men.

It teacheth us to carry ourselves as Children to our heavenly Father: First, In our Imitation of him, Eph 5:1 Be ye therefore Followers of God as dear Children : Secondly, In our Submission to him, Heb 12:9 Furthermore, we have had Fathers of our Flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them Reverence: Shall we not much rather be in Subjection to the Father of Spirits, and live? Thirdly, In our Dependence on him, Matt 6:32 For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have Need of all these Things.

True Sanctification purgeth the Heart from the Love of Sin, Rom 7:15 For that which I do, I allow not And the Life from the Dominion of Sin, Rom 6:19 As ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleanness, and to Iniquity, unto Iniquity ; even so now yield your Members Servants to Righteousness, unto Holiness.

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Can none have saving Benefit by Christ, but such as are united to him? A. No; for as Adam's Sin could not hurt us, except we had been in him ; so Christ's Redemption cannot profit us, except we are in him, 1 Cor 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption.

What are the Bonds of this Union? A. The Spirit on God's Part, 1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his Commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him; and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. And Faith on our Part, Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your Hearts by Faith.

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